The mystery at lovers' cave

Chapter 26: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A journalist is summoned to investigate a seaside death initially treated as an accident after a woman falls from cliffs at Ludmouth Bay, and his arrival sets off a sequence of amateur sleuthing alongside formal police inquiry. The narrative follows interviews, oddball suspects, and a series of clues—including a discovered shoe, poisons, and unexpected personal connections—while alternating moments of comic sidelight with nocturnal expeditions and procedural restraint. Tensions between private initiative and official method drive the investigation, leading to arrests and the unmasking of the plot behind the death as the sleuth pieces together motive and opportunity.

Transcriber’s Notes

This transcription follows the text of the edition published by Simon and Schuster in 1927. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:

“Maragaret” to “Margaret” (Chapter IX);
“Couston Hall” to “Clouston Hall” (Chapter XI);
“witholding” to “withholding” (Chapter XVII);
“Morseby” to “Moresby” (Chapter XVII);
“currare” to “curare” (Chapter IX); and
the phrase “any he was” to “and he was” (Chapter XXVI).